[kwlug-disc] Raspberry pi cluster setup.

[Mark Steffen]

I have a Pi4B 8GB I think I ordered it from Amazon USA because I had a 
gift card to use up, works ok mainly using it for emulation.  I have a 
Pinebook Pro for general ARM linuxing.

But, imho, hardkernel.com (odroid) has some pretty interesting ARM SBCs 
that outperform the Pi and have support for onboard eMMC without using a 
compute module/extra board.  ODROID N2+ has the same SOC as the Pinebook 
Pro and it's pretty speedy for the price.

On the cluster side I'm also interested in this, but was waiting for a 
reasonably priced performance Arm64 mini-ITX board with (ideally) SODIMM 
slots, dual gigabit ethernet (public and cluster/storage networks) or 
better, and dual M.2 / dual or quad SATA.  There is a board that matches 
this description I saw somewhere but it was $750 USD, a little outside 
my target price range.

Pairing something like this with a Build-a-blade box (9 mini ITX in 6U 
rackspace) would make for a relatively tidy and large-ish cluster...

Mark

On 2021-06-03 12:26 p.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> I am afraid I do not have good information for you, but this sounds
> fascinating.
>
> Other people: where do you get your RaspPi gear these days? I know a
> bunch of you are enthusiasts.
>
> - Paul
>
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 09:30:48AM -0400, Yas Adem wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Does anyone have setup Raspberry pi cluster? Is there good place with
>> reasonable price to get Raspberry pi compute module and 7 mini ITX turning
>> PI board?
>>
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